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nikaspran

51 karma · joined January 5, 2013

http://nikas.praninskas.com

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nikaspran··on Cloudflare Flagship
Percentage rollouts, RBAC, audit history, A/B testing, multivariate - it gets complex quick. That boolean turns into a whole system you have to maintain and operate.
nikaspran··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
A ceasefire without security guarantees is just a temporary pause for russia to rearm and continue on. None of the justifications for russia's invasion have changed, and this would mean the US will roll over for anything.
nikaspran··on Apollo will close down on June 30th
According to the quotes by Reddit themselves, the 20M a year is opportunity cost, not actual cost.
nikaspran··on Show HN: Efficient Data Formats for GPT
I think it doesn't need to be specifically text based, but given that LLMs are usually trained on primarily text (at least currently), I'm not sure they'd be meaningfully able to generate binary directly.

As for using DBs, that's certainly an option (i.e. langchain and such), but at some point you do still need to bring in the data inside the context, so I'd say it's still interesting to consider what would be an efficient way to represent that data via text.

nikaspran··on Show HN: Efficient Data Formats for GPT
I ran a small test comparing different data serialization formats for use with GPT models (and possibly other LLMs). This is obviously very limited but it was striking how much of a difference switching from JSON to something like YAML could be.

I wonder if we might also see LLM specific data serialisation formats in the future, to make use of tokenization in the most efficient manner and enhance the generative capability of the models.

nikaspran··on Launch HN: CodeComplete (YC W23) – Copilot for Enterprise
How does this compare with https://www.tabnine.com/enterprise, which is also self-hosted, trained on permissively licensed repositories and supports training on private repos?
nikaspran··on Mikhail Gorbachev has died
This is completely false.
nikaspran··on Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche
On a related note, let me shill my side-project: https://nikas.praninskas.com/suggest-subreddit/

It suggests subreddits based on what you're already subscribed to.

nikaspran··on Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', opposition says
It is not even close to the same thing. Please stop lying.

Denying entry into airspace is not the same as forcing a plane to land and kidnapping a political opponent.

nikaspran··on FreeCAD 0.19
I use it for 3D printing mainly. It's pretty good, but 0.18.x had some annoying bugs (i.e. it would occasionally just crash, wiping everything since the last time you saved). Nothing show-stopper if you save often and don't do anything too crazy.

I personally prefer Fusion 360 (it feels sleeker and is way more usable with a touchpad), but it's definitely a viable choice.

nikaspran··on Lithuania plans to hold drills in case of accident at the Belarus nuclear plant
Iodine pills have been distributed already. This is most likely for subsequent doses.
nikaspran··on Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
I've built a small VSCode extension to query TypeScript and JavaScript abstract syntax tree via esquery: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nikaspra...

It's been an awesome exercise and I've been quite impressed by the API available to extensions.

nikaspran··on ESLint 7.0
Have exclusively used ESLint for TypeScript over the past year. It works great, no issues. The only slight problem is some rules conflict, but that only comes into play if using a comprehensive preset like airbnb.
nikaspran··on Show HN: An experimental code search engine
It would be great to have a few pre-selected example queries immediately clickable, to see some examples. That would help showcase why this is cool and what you can do with it. And maybe why it's better than other search tools (i.e. built-in github one).
nikaspran··on Show HN: This page exists only if someone is looking at it
Google seems to be running JavaScript for a while now:

I.e.: http://searchengineland.com/tested-googlebot-crawls-javascri...

nikaspran··on Design for programmers
While this is a pretty fun idea, it's pretty much dead:

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Hi <...>,

I'm glad that you find it amazing but we have Method on hold for now. We are focusing on other projects we think will work better.

Thanks for your kind words,

Maria.

mariamunuera.com

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I got this response after I sent an email asking for any status updates sometime in April. Unfortunate.